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City view Location: St. Louis It's buildings and an arch. (What you don't see is that Leslie took 20 pictures of this view.) - IMG 2391
Location: St. Louis She wasn't sure how close they would come on the highway, so she started snapping when they crossed the Mississippi and didn't stop until they passed the stupid thing. - IMG 2392
State Number...what is it now? Location: St. Louis Part of the ongoing quest to document every state visited. - IMG 2394
Catholic Guilt Location: St. Louis Also, she was trying to make up for the fact that they had planned to give St. Louis a day and a half, and ultimately didn't even stop for gas. Hence, lots of highway pics. After this, it was just a long day of driving: more of lovely Missouri, then Oklahoma (dubbed *parental advisory* "a fucking hell-hole of a miserable shit state"), and, finally, rest, in Dallas, at 1 a.m. - IMG 5996
Packing: after hauling way too many clothes around Europe, for Thailand I packed light. Which worked out fine until I ran out of clothes and had to wear people's souveniers while my laundry was done. - IMG 5997
for entertainment (The hairdryer didn't go, and this was the last unsmashed day in the lives of those poor balance bars.) - IMG_4278.JPG
Giant frieze of Greek gods fighting the Titans at the Pergamon Museum. - IMG_4280.JPG
some fine-ass artistry - IMG_4281.JPG
Seneca - IMG_4282.JPG
and Socrates! Together at last, together forever. - IMG_4284.JPG
"When I survey the whole universe in its dumbness and man left to himself in the center with no light and no knowing who put him there, staring back, I want to vomit up my last rat." (in the bubble) "'Who?' What the fuck...Fuck you!" - IMG_4286.JPG
on the steps of the reconstructed Greek temple - IMG_4287.JPG
The Ishtar Gate, from a long time ago in Babylon - IMG_4289.JPG
some cuneiform - IMG_4290.JPG
Some more gate. The scale of this thing was difficult to capture. Large. - IMG_4291.JPG
I've seen so little Babylonian art in my day, I found it very interesting. - IMG_4292.JPG
Great bird-head man is not too cool to carry a purse. - IMG_4293.JPG
I'd like one of these guarding my front door. - IMG_4295.JPG
I liked the block of writing across this guy--it seemed very modern. - IMG_4296.JPG
altar in the Islamic art section - IMG_4297.JPG
another - IMG_4298.JPG
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another large-scale installation of decoration around a palace - IMG_4300.JPG
The Pergamon - IMG_0275.jpg
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